February 14th 2020 was a busy day for the SVFD! Somers Fire responded to 1 residential alarm, 2 vehicle extrications, and a reported structure fire. For the second time in a day Somers Fire members were putting the Hurst Jaws of life eDraulics to work. At 4:19pm the SVFD was dispatched this time to Route 100 near the intersection of Route 139. Units arrived to find a two car head on motor vehicle ... (Full Story & Photos)

At 8:17am on Friday February 14th 2020 Somers Fire and EMS was dispatched to the intersection of Mahopac Avenue and Route 35 for a motor vehicle accident with extrication. The accident was reported to be a head on collision involving two vehicles. The first unit arrived on scene at 8:23am. Shortly after that Engine 181 arrived followed by Car 2442 and Rescue 20. Upon evaluation of the victims it was ... (Full Story & Photos)

At our weekly drill on February 12th 2020 the SVFD welcomed Mike Lombardi from Firematic to conduct in-service department training on the TL-9 extrication tool. The TL-9 is a new resource that the Somers Fire District recently purchased to compliment our new Hurst eDraulic tools. The TL-9 allows us to use the spreaders to lift objects such as cars. After this training the TL-9's were officially put ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Monday, January 6th the Junior Corp had their weekly drill. During this drill the probationary firefighters were conducting a search and rescue operation. The 6 probationary members were placed in a scenario as if they were lost in a fire, they were not able to see and they had to use search techniques to locate the other firefighters and then exit the building. They used nonverbal communication ... (Full Story & Photos)

As 2019 comes to a close we are reflecting back on another busy year for the SVFD! In total during the year 2019 the SVFD responded to 2,571 calls for service with 682 being fire calls and 1,889 EMS. This was slightly down from 2018 when the SVFD responded to 2,776 calls. A breakdown of the call types is as follows:

EMS: 1,757
Commercial Alarm: 154
Residential Alarm: 134
Mutual Aid EMS: 132
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